Kieran Healy’s Weblog Sociology and other distractions

Posts from June 2002

Clueless Noob

I have no idea what I’m doing.


Minority Report’s Vision of the Future

Minority Report gives us a detailed vision of Washington, D.C. in 2054. Is it plausible?


Amazon recommendations on crack

Amazon’s front page just recommended that I buy Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.


On being an obscure google search result

It’s five o’clock on a Friday, it’s the middle of the Summer, I’m wasting my time.


Culture and the Creative Industries

Finished a for-now-final version of What’s New for Culture in the New Economy? yesterday.


I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag…

Reading the newspapers this morning, I’m struck by the fascinating reaction to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the phrase `under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The response from legal commentators is that the decision will be overturned quickly, and rightly so. The reasoning is that the Supreme Court has […]


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